AUGUST 2022 | Local interest
used free-of-charge for parties etc. Lots of local groups currently use the room for meetings but we are always happy to welcome more. We run various events during the year: Our St Patrick’s Day event this year included drinks promotions and free home-made Irish stew and soda bread which proved rather popular! Our Easter and Christmas Draws are legendary with a myriad of prizes including traditional meat joints, alcohol, and lots of other goodies. On 30 April 30 2022 we relaunched our annual ‘Giant Pumpkin’ competition. Even as you read, pumpkins across the village are being tended with loving care and fed with secret manures. The great winner will be judged and announced on 8 October - come along on the day and have a drink with us or partake in a burger from the BBQ. Our last winner weighed 124kg, although this is some way off the whopping 235kg which is our all-time champion! Our plans for our 100 year centenary celebrations on July 15 2020 were unfortunately scuppered by Covid, however this gives us the opportunity for some fun this Summer! On the weekend of 13-14 August 2022 we’ll be running lots of games
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competitions with cash prizes and trophies for darts, snooker, cribbage and shuffleboard. Plus the nearest score to 102 on darts and shuffleboard will win an extra mystery prize! Come along and join in or try out a new game you never know, you may be a winner! We are a Private Members Club, currently offering your first years membership for just £25 and each subsequent year for £15. But you can visit us up to three times to get to know us before you sign-up, any current member can sign you in as a guest, so please do come and see us. All the money raised by the Club goes straight back into it as the Committees that run the Club and organise events are completely staffed by members who are unpaid volunteers. We have an amazing history of 102 years in Henfield but unfortunately, like many other small businesses, we have struggled in recent years. Due to Covid, and the recent huge increase in energy prices, unless we are able to recruit new members soon, who use the Club regularly, there is a real risk that we may have to close, so please do come in and support us if you can.
Siobhan Reynolds
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